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A stretch to moderate/banish any lower leg cramp nightime pyrotechnic tendencies (the objective being to maximise stretching but with least waking as just shuffling away to the land of nod). After extensive hamstring and other upper leg stretching (for me, reaching heel up onto bathroom sink whilst brushing teeth is ideal). You've made sure there's plenty of water in you, as dehydration can make cramping a lot worse. Now go to pre-investigated stairs (ideally we are looking for one that is carpeted securely (to ensure least chance of slipping, but also comfortable to the foot). On one side, preferably both, a convenient banister or some strong upright is within arm's reach. Now the trick (of course ymmv) is to stretch to the max (and thereby reduce or eliminate stiffness and cramps). Position yourself so just at the rear of the ball of one foot is just on the lip of the stair (you'll need to experiment to get the feel of just where this is), now we stand on that foot only, on the step (we're trying, in effect to hook that foot just on the edge but without requiring any effort). Reach hands out to supports to stabilise. Now let the heel sink down over the edge, all the time making sure that the ball is safely, but only just on the step. We're looking for the position that allows maximum weight and leverage on the ankle pivot through the achilles tendon etc. Now we just wait, it takes quite a while (minutes) for things to let go and stretch out. Meanwhile you are doing everything you can to relax all muscles from knee down which initially can be a bit counter one's instincts as there's a sense of insecurity while hovering on the edge. To minimise the risk of any accident, in a relaxed way, dangle the other foot down below this step, so it is positioned just above the next step down and ready (but relaxed!) to catch you in case your stretching foot were to slip off. Now you can do this with trainers on, on such as the front door step or road kerb side, using the shoe sole grips to give you a really strong locked on foot (I do this too, in daytime), but the point here is pre-sleep stretching. I find wearing slippers helps the toes to relax and gives a better grip (and isn't so cold), but bare feet works too). So there you are relaxing and stretching that calf muscle plenty … but not enough yet. Now you lean back on your arms so that even more force is applied to that resisting muscle mass. This gives a bit more grip to your foot on the step too, as you are pushing into the step a bit, but take care as if you do slip or flunk, there's room for more upset. But we're not done, when you are secure and comfortable with all this (which might take quite a few nights experimentation), you raise the stakes again, by moving the foot of dangling leg till the knuckles of that foot cup underneath the heel of the stretching foot - and now you steadily pull up on that foot by raising the knee forward so you stretch out the shin muscles a bit (this applies ever more stretching force where needed to the main calf stretch). Done? … oh no, not so easy, now flip to the other leg/foot, probably positioned on the other side of the staircase, and repeat. And that makes round one. Repeat both again until you can feel your foot being allowed to flex up freely to its full extent. All the time, you are being sure to relax that mighty brain of yours, be gone all busy-ness, cares, nags, todos, bête noires, ambitions, worry-mongering, thinki-thinkis, ego-dents, doubts, regrets, plans, and admit it - you can list hundreds more … as you are on that delicious slide down into your bed and away into the world of uninterrupted sound healing sleep. PS1. and now don't undo all the leg good by roasting your legs too hot during the night, so keep the warmest covers for the upper body. PS2. No doing any of this with a wonky head, drunk, etc., we don't want you doing a head plant over the banister. PS3. Once you get this technique and style down pat, you'll find that legs less or no play games at night, and less in the day too. You sleep better. And it cost zero $, you didn't have to schlep to any quack, trust any "expert", there are no drugs, surgery or appliances involved, no waiting, you don't rely on anyone else, don't need any permissions, can do it as much as you like (the more the merrier), … and in some form or other such stretching is as old as humanity. Try it.
The objective of Cash for work (CfW) activities is to support the immediate recovery of communities affected by the conflict while encouraging the revitalization of the local economy and reinforcing social cohesion. Members of the community are selected following vulnerability criteria and gender equality and work for 20 days in large mixed groups in exchange of a payment. The works improve the environment of the whole population. Photo: Amanda Nero I IOM
This is the dashboard of my 2003 Dodge Caravan after it was completely reassembled. The Air Blend Door shaft broke making the temperature control useless. The cost of repair would take $1000.00 or more depending upon who you take it to. The high price is due to the fact that the temperature blend door is located behind the dashboard.
At 1st I faulted the mechanics for wanting too much money for such a small part. It's like they think the average person is walking around with $1000 in their pocket. Having seen for myself what was involved with replacing the part, I now understand the cost.
By the way, here is an update from a person who found a quicker and easier way to repair/replace the part. It is not a professional fix but, it is a good option for those who do not have either the time or the patience to remove a dashboard.
However, what I don't understand is why a vulnerable part is placed in such a way the average person will not be financially able to replace it when it fails. It looks like they are using cheap parts and they don't care. I hope that is not the case but, that is how it looks.
Until now, my parents and I have had great results with Chrysler products. A 1966 Oldsmobile Jetstar 88 was the last Non-Chrysler my father owned. At the time I remember him carefully researching all the vehicles of the time. He purchased a 1989 Chrysler Newport. Every 4 or so years he would purchase a new Chrysler. Here is the car he had in 1984.
...and the final product. I believe it was a lines filter... anyway...
I like.... how you can still tell what it is. It still has the beauty of the original shot- still won't tell you where....
I don't like how white the majority of the sky is... but if I moved the tab anywhere else, it would do one of two things- 1) become beyond recognition or 2) no longer look like it was filtered. Instead it simply looked horribly photoshopped.
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Objective number two was the Matterhorn (4478 m), which we climbed from Italy via the Cresta del Leone. Here Nils dons crampons for the first snow field on the Testa del Leone
The objective of Cash for work (CfW) activities is to support the immediate recovery of communities affected by the conflict while encouraging the revitalization of the local economy and reinforcing social cohesion. Members of the community are selected following vulnerability criteria and gender equality and work for 20 days in large mixed groups in exchange of a payment. The works improve the environment of the whole population. Photo: Amanda Nero I IOM
My Chinon CS film camera from about 1975, I guess with it's 2 objectives. i bought these with a camera bag and the total price was 35€ at flea market.
{This is not a test, what you are seeing is real. Straight Out of the Camera, No Photoshop!! Some but not all photos slightly Adjusted in Camera Raw and Saved to Jpeg}
Panel: Inflation objective, structural forces, and central bank communication
Jordi Galí,Professor,Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Annette Vissing-Jørgensen,Professor,University of California Berkeley
Volker Wieland,Professor,Goethe University Frankfurt
Chair: Philip R. Lane, Member of the Executive Board, European Central Bank
© Bernd Hartung / European Central Bank
Schefflera (umbrella plant) carries numerous stomata on its lower surface only, in a chaotic pattern.
The Millennium Link was an ambitious £84.5m project with the objective of restoring navigability across Scotland on the historic Forth & Clyde Canal and Union Canal, providing a corridor of regenerative activity through central Scotland.
A major challenge faced, was to link the Forth and Clyde Canal, which lay 35m (115ft) below the level of the Union Canal. Historically, the two canals had been joined at Falkirk by a flight of 11 locks that stepped down across a distance of 1.5km, but these has been dismantled in 1933, breaking the link.
What was required was a method of connecting these two canals by way of a boat lift. British Waterways were keen to present a visionary solution taking full advantage of the opportunity to create a truly spectacular and fitting structure that would suitably commemorate the Millennium and act as an iconic symbol for years to come.
The Falkirk Wheel lies at the end of a reinforced concrete aqueduct that connects, via the Roughcastle tunnel and a double staircase lock, to the Union Canal. Boats entering the Wheel’s upper gondola are lowered, along with the water that they float in, to the basin below. At the same time, an equal weight rises up, lifted in the other gondola. This works on the Archimedes principle of displacement. That is, the mass of the boat sailing into the gondola will displace an exactly proportional volume of water so that the final combination of ‘boat plus water’ balances the original total mass.
Each gondola runs on small wheels that fit into a single curved rail fixed on the inner edge of the opening on each arm. In theory, this should be sufficient to ensure that they always remain horizontal, but any friction or sudden movement could cause the gondola to stick or tilt. To ensure that this could never happen and that the water and boats always remain perfectly level throughout the whole cycle, a series of linked cogs acts as a back up.
To commemorate the completion of The Millennium Link through the opening of The Falkirk Wheel by Her Majesty The Queen during her Golden Jubilee on 24th May 2002.
Objective lens: Industar-55U 140mm, F/8.0
Printed on Cotman water colour B5 sized paper / exposed for 8hrs
Sensitizer: Jacquard cyanotype kit (Potassium Ferricyanide & Ferric Ammonium Citrate)
Toning: Jasmine tea & Black tea (thin)
Enlarger: LPL Model 7451 large format enlarger
Negative: image on a Duobond 6 inch 2k monochrome LCD (original picture: a picture by Mark Plötzon on Pexels)
Light source: High power (50w) UV LED unit (SMD=surface mounted LED modules)
The condenser unit (= a unit in which two 16cm diameter convex lenses are set facing each other) was removed from my old Hansa patent enlarger for use in LPL Model 7451.
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Renaissance 2.0 research design project - putting nature to work. Form-finding and multi-objective optimisation with genetic algorithms; a table and shelf generation system with user controls. Three sample tables and two sample shelves shown at the DMY 2010 in Berlin at Hangar 5 of the disused Tempelhof Airport.
Executed at Lund University School of Industrial Design by Andreas Hopf and Axel Nordin, supported by Vinnova, Sweden.
andreas.hopf@design.lth.se
axel.nordin@mkon.lth.se
Budapest Summer Farewell Festival 2004 August 28.
The warm afternoon sun heated up the spirit of the event, giving me an opportunity to try my new tele objective!
Objective Non Narrative Issue #8.
No longer on hiatus!
5.25 x 7.875 in
Edition of 100
24 pages black and white
photo curtesy of silvanie
A paratrooper assigned to Company A, 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade, trains on urban operations, including room and building clearing May 21, at Vaziani Training Area, Georgia, during Exercise Noble Partner. Noble Partner 16 is happening May 11 to 26 and includes approximately 1300 participants from the U.S., Georgia and the U.K. The exercise is a reoccurring training event that takes place at Vaziani Training Area, Georgia. Noble Partner 16 is a critical part of Georgia's training for its contribution of a light infantry company to the NATO Response Force (NRF) and enhances Georgian territorial self-defense capability. (Photo by Sgt. Daniel Cole, U.S. Army Europe Public Affairs)
OLL RED Photo #2
Objective 3: Elements and Principals of Design
Line: the baseball has curved lines, the red stitching. The colour change in the two reds the light red and the dark red there is a vertical line in between the two colour changes
Colour: the colour is red I took the photo and a red fence and the baseball stitching is red. I took the photo of the baseball on the fence because I though the red and the red from the baseball went together.
Space: the negative open space on the left hand side of the photo makes the positive space more interesting than the negative. It makes the eye focus on the ball not the negative space.
Shape: the shape is the baseball the baseball is circle and underneath the ball it is rectangle kind of.
Texture: there’s a soft rough texture the red makes it rough but it also makes it soft because there is light reds in the colour. And the white of the baseball makes even more surf texture.
Balance: it is balanced by the red stitching and the red fence. There aren’t two different colours trying to go against each other.
Contrast: the darkness in the right hand side of the photo doesn’t have a lot of contrast in it. It’s just dark and on the other side of the photo it has some contrast but not a lot, where the contrast is? At the bottom of the two different red colours right there because it bright but not too bright.
Unity/Harmony: the red and the red from the baseball stitching make unity and harmony and sweet and simple.
Objective 4 Lighting
Type of lighting and why: the type of lighting is harsh when I took the photo I was outside and the sun was shining very bright.
Objective 5 Post-Production (ex. dust/spot removal, resize, contrast, white balance, sharpening, borders, etc.)Corrections/adjustments made AND/OR techniques applied: In the original photo I resized it, I added brightness because the dark red was made from water on the fence and that’s also why there is dark and light parts of the photo, I edited contrast into the photo because there was no contrast in the original photo, I didn’t sharpen the photo because I didn’t think of it and I didn’t think I needed it also.
Objective 6 Critiquing
Next time I think I would try to get rid of more negative space, and I would also get rid of the dark and light reds, that’s not saying I don’t like it I do, what I think I did well is the reds because there’s no two different colour in the photo it is just one colour.
The two markers on the left were built from leftover pieces from the Imperial Sector box set. The ammo crates on the right come from the Battlefield Accessories bag.
The main objective is to come up with a plan to get through the fence and sneak some hay. Objective is also the last part of the left cow's name.
Soldiers from the 74th Motorized Battalion in the Slovenian Army maneuver through thick forestry en route to their objective as they conduct a deliberate attack exercise during the Immediate Response 2012 (IR12) training event held in Slunj, Croatia on Wednesday, May 30, 2012. IR12 is a multinational tactical field training exercise that will involve more than 700 personnel primarily from the U.S. Army Europe’s 2nd Calvary Regiment and Croatian armed forces, with contingents from Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Montenegro and Slovenia. Macedonia and Serbia will send observers to the exercise. The exercise is a part of USEUCOM's joint training and exercise program designed to enhance joint and combined interoperability between the U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force, Croatian Armed Forces and partner nations, and will help prepare participants to operate successfully in a joint, multinational, interagency, integrated environment. (U.S. Army photo by SPC Lorenzo Ware/Released)
Commando level attack on to objective LEAD (Range 200)
Images captured show a Commando level attack on to objective LEAD (Range 200) in the 29 Palms training area of California. Over 500 Royal Marines from 42 Commando were involved in the dawn raid. The mission saw the Commandos clear enemy from buildings and surrounding terrain. The attack was the final phase of the six week long training exercise, Black Alligator – December 2012
Photographs by PO (phot) Sean Clee Crown Copyright 2012
Kashmir Solidarity Day is observed every year with the sole objective of seeking a peaceful solution to the Kashmir problem, besides delivering a pragmatic message to the international community.
Aaron and I man the trench with our 8 man squad. All we have to do is defend it against 16 other soldiers...
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This wargame system is being developed by Magnus and Chandler and is being played on Magnus' Modular Landscape System. All lanscape, figures, and vehicles in this game were created by Magnus.
///Objective- Breach enemy doors///
///FAILED///
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CT-5572: "Prime NOOOOO!!!!"
CT-3492: "Sir we got to get the hell outta here."
CT-8426: "I'll cover you, GO!"
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This certainly was one hell of a trap. Prime got shot 4 times by those damn droids. We had no time to honor him. We had to save ourselves. Slash already was running for his life. We had to leave Prime there. We had no choice. I seriously didn't think the Republic would betray us like that and send us into a trap......Well, I thought wrong. I lost one man, and I couldn't let Slash or Copper die now.